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Empress Sisi in your home

April 15, 2021 1:36 pm Published by Comments Off on Empress Sisi in your home

Sisi is coming to a small screen near you this summer.   Netflix is making a six-part series about the life... View Article


Sisi, Empress of Austria with diamond stars in her hair before 1873 by Franz Xavier Winterhalter

Swooning over Sisi

October 18, 2020 12:13 pm Published by Comments Off on Swooning over Sisi

When it came to Empress Elisabeth, men generally swooned over her while women were often unimpressed.   When she was first... View Article


A very sad anniversary

September 10, 2020 6:00 pm Published by Comments Off on A very sad anniversary

September 10th is the sad anniversary of the death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva.  Sisi was staying in... View Article


Sleep in Sisi’s room

August 31, 2020 6:24 pm Published by Comments Off on Sleep in Sisi’s room

In 1862 Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi) spent a week with her parents and sister Queen Maria at the Wilder... View Article


When Sisi replaced a saint

August 3, 2020 2:29 pm Published by Comments Off on When Sisi replaced a saint

In the year Sisi was murdered, 1898, a stained glass window showing Empress Elisabeth with her daughter Gisela and two... View Article


Sisi Trail, what is open?

July 29, 2020 5:56 pm Published by Comments Off on Sisi Trail, what is open?

Althorp, ancestral home of Earl Spencer, will re-open to visitors on Saturday 1 August.  Sisi became a close friend of... View Article